As much as supply chain professionals are aware of supply chain volatility introduced in market due to COVID-19 disruptions, the issues they face in delivering goods and services to customers without disruption are remarkably common across industries, and predate the COVID-19 pandemic: How do you segment your supply chain? How do you get the right inventory supply demand in the right location? How do you detect when there’s a sudden market shift and quickly change your plans? Join Global Supply Chain Leader, Takshay Aggarwal, and Vice President IBM Supply Chain, Ron Castro, as they share insights into how IBM and its clients are evolving their supply chains to emerge stronger and more resilient in our new normal.

Demonstrate opportunities to use Robotic Process Automation and Augmented Intelligence to improve end user experiences, reduce cycle for procurement and end users and free up resources for more strategic activities. A demo will show how the "Bot" can provide information on policies, resources, preferred suppliers that enhance end user customer satisfaction and improve the overall Source to Pay experience.

Supplier partnership management doesn't have to be overly complicated. Let's discuss how to use common sense to segment your suppliers, and then establish strategies for how to manage them (or not!). All suppliers are not created equal, and recognizing this basic truth is half the battle...

As the role of Procurement continues to evolve, organizations are challenged to find new ways to drive sustainable value. To meet these challenges, many organizations are undergoing initiatives on “Procurement Transformation” – a phrase that has become commonly used, however it is often misrepresented and poorly executed. The key ingredients to successful and holistic Procurement transformation include strategies that address people, process, and technology aspects. All three elements should be in sync to maximize value and performance. Unfortunately, we often see significant gaps in the assessment and execution of such Procurement transformation efforts. In this session, we will review the important contributions of each element and how they work together to deliver optimized results, sustainable value creation and true transformation.

Present Sprint's Digital Journey (now part of T-Mobile) 1) Established a Digital Lab to lead the journey: a) develop a digital strategy and roadmap; b) engaged with 40+ Digital companies and launched 17+ Proofs of Concepts 2) Demo a Digital Assistant (named "Bailey") that is in development stage. Bailey is similar to an Alexa/Siri where a person can chat and ask Bailey to go and "fetch" data like spend data. 3.) Design Thinking - Present how the team is using Design Thinking. Design Thinking is the creative problem-solving approach that helps you uncover needs, generate ideas and innovate.

Artificial Intelligence will revolutionize the technology world we live today personally and professionally. AI technology will reboot procurement to the next level where world-class procurement is expected and ubiquitous. Mike Shin Global VP of Procurement for FLIR Systems will address the next practical step in making the "CPO Digital Cockpit" a reality by 2022.

Organizational design, effective processes and performance management tools can transform the procurement function from transactional to a strategic organization. In this presentation, we will analyze several best-in-class procurement organizational structures. We will explore how to design and implement the most effective structure, create and upgrade processes and performance management tools that complement and enhance the structure in order to build a capable and world-class procurement organization.

COVID-19, and the accompanying fluctuations, have exposed a lack of capability in organizations to tightly manage supply to meet demand. In this session, you’ll learn how to overcome these challenges and emerge smarter with a more agile and resilient business.

Interested in learning more about developing and implementing an effective global logistics strategy with an engaged team? What a ""Day in the Life"" of a Future Logistics Manager may look like? This is your webinar!

Whether disruptions to your supply chain are external (hello, COVID-19) or internal (acquisition of a new product line), you can establish transportation processes and technology to move your products with ease. Hear from two of Schneider’s supply chain and transportation experts to learn how you can prepare for potential disruptions, take a look at what experts anticipate will happen in the transportation market moving forward and get real-world examples of how shippers like you implement creative solutions to keep their supply chains thriving during disruptions.

When crises occur, a company’s ability to weather the storm usually is determined by several factors, but at least for product based companies, none is more important than the resilience of the supply chain. Depending on the type and scale of the crisis, in some cases the survival of the company itself may hang in the balance. During these times, operation excellence, that is, the ability of the organization to execute, is important, but it usually won’t be enough to avoid disaster. True resiliency comes from careful prior planning, a deliberate effort to build flexibility into all of the major factors of the supply chain. Because the interactions between the various parts of the chain can change dramatically when crisis hits, it’s imperative that the supply chain is evaluated as an end to end system, not as individual components, using what’s sometimes known as system thinking. In many cases, it’s important to evaluate how the supply chain interacts with other parts of the business, as well as outside socioeconomic and political systems. This webinar touches on some of the theory required to use systems thinking in supply chain design, and then elaborates on practical ideas that can be adopted to improve the ability for a business to respond, and even thrive, in times of crisis.

In the blink of an eye every company around the world is facing unprecedented operational challenges, impacting both employee and customer experiences. It’s time to look for the silver lining, and do it fast. You have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to stake your claim as an innovation leader and disrupt your industry (or even your own organization) by quickly transforming operations and building net-new offerings that extend your company’s value.

A journey into UCB's Digital Procurement Strategy. How UCB Procurement is transforming into a Digital Procurement Organization. Robotics, AI, ML, AA: Findings, Learnings, and Mistakes along the way.

COVID-19 has had a profound effect on global commence as several country border restrictions, policies, and regulations were initiated. As soon as passenger flights began cancelling in January, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) responded very quickly to address the risk to freight movement. Kim Masone, HPE Vice President Global Logistics, will share some of her insights and observations from inside the company’s War Room that were successful in maintaining business continuity, particularly in light of the geo-political landscape encountered today.

Risks are inevitable especially when going past the boundaries of Earth, but with a plan, the proper data and a well-designed information system Supply Chain risks can be significantly reduced increasing mission success. Nasa Goddard has made substantial advancements in the last few years, come learn what we have done to reduce our Supply Chain risks.

Now more than ever your supply chain team needs to able to compete with the best of the best. The fight for The complexity of sales is rising. The effect of pandemic has introduced a new risk factor. In this new world you can't be out of stock. Production can't be delayed. Customer orders can't be missed. It's a tough world out there! The solution is visibility. Supply chain visibility will make sure your team can see the challenges BEFORE they come -- so that they can solve them at the lowest possible cost BEFORE the customer starts waiting for an order. That's how you make your company dominate.

Customer metrics are the foundation of the customer relationship, but a customers’ EXPERIENCE is very personal. If you focus only on metrics, you may miss a big piece of what customers really need. During the presentation, I will review some techniques that have helped me build the customer EXPERIENCE and share examples of how this relationship is helping to navigate, collaboratively, through our current pandemic. I will share times when I’m the customer and when I’m the supplier of goods/information for both internal AND external customers.

Supply chains succeed or fail based upon their talent. The best strategy paired with innovative technology will melt in the hands of an incapable or unwilling organization. Yet, many supply chain organizations take an improvised approach to talent development and retention. Organizations are hesitant to invest in development or retention and often employ one-size-fits-all plans that work for no one. This session will dispel common myths that persist about talent development and offer a strategy for how to systematically approach human capital as the core enabler of supply chain management that it is. While much of this discussion is generalizable to any organization, the evolution of integrated supply chain management and its progression into a digitalized era make talent THE critical challenge for supply chain leaders.

During the pandemic, the U.S. apparel and footwear industry saw its revenues drop off a cliff at the same time its traditional approach to supply chains broke apart. As we come out of this crisis, we will explore what lessons have been learned and what brands and retailers should consider as the economy, and the industry, begin to recover.

The Manufacturing & Distribution industries have a strong appetite for technology. Now that companies have experienced the game-changing benefits of automation and the emergence of interconnected and intelligent manufacturing & distribution systems, companies of all sizes are realigning their business and operational models to take advantage of new, disruptive technologies. Companies have found that they can use technology to increase profits and efficiency, which is why 55% of the industry’s businesses globally have already transitioned to Industry 4.0 (Europe) and Smart Manufacturing (United States). However, the key to using technology successfully will be in a company’s ability to distinguish between what is new and what is useful.

If you are managing product families that have some products with steady demand, some with sporadic or infrequent demand, and some with one-time shots or customer-specific demand, then the standard ABC categorization of SKUs will lead you astray. How can you focus your forecasting, demand planning, and inventory management efforts for the greatest impact, when you are dealing with thousands of SKUs that have a wide variety of demand patterns? Learn one practitioner’s approach that has been applied in both distribution and manufacturing environments.

As leaders we can all lead out in times of disruption but how do we do it effectively? Being in leadership roles for almost 40 years, I have learned the importance of building businesses and organizations by building people. My workshop will focus on how those that we lead can be the very ones that get us get through any disruption. Join me as I take you through some steps, that I have learned, which took me from manager to coach to mentor and the value that brings to those that I have led.

This presentation will cover the importance of adding analytical capabilities on a Supply Chain team vs. leaning on IT teams to service Supply Chain teams. There is significant value decentralizing some of the IT/BI functions and moving those capabilities into Supply Chain to help improve turnaround time on model improvements, dashboards, reports, metrics, etc.

Supplier partnerships are a key part of an effective supply chain and these need to be developed and enhanced. There are numerous areas of risk and uncertainty. Most of these are outside of our control so we need to find ways to mitigate these risks. Multiple risk mitigation techniques are available and should be utilized as individually they do not cover all aspects. This webinar will go into further details on developing alternative suppliers as an effective tool to diversity and reduce risk.

Trust-build in global organizations is hard...and that was before Covid. Today - more that ever - organizations need to build trust and psychological to best enable their employee's success. And why not start from Day One of a new hire's journey? Join Michael Godfrey to explore a case study in building organizational trust in a diverse, global environment.

For a high growth company, ensuring supply coverage that allows for a high level of flexibility in meeting financial targets can be a business imperative. Additionally, the use of tools and processes that enable near real time views of supply and demand allow for fine tuning of plans outside of the S&OP cadence. In this presentation we will review how the S&OP process and collaboration with IT and contract manufacturing has allowed the supply chain to stay nimble and meet financial targets.

I've deconstructed and rebuilt 3 teams in 3 separate organizations. I've gone through 3 phases of awareness as I've built the teams, from the beginning that I've dubbed dumb luck (new leader, new team, etc..), to leveraging the learning's in my second team rebuild, to finally a fully thought out and strategic rebuild here at in current organization. Along the way, I've heard a lot of "talk" about High Performing Culture but saw very little focus on executing that narrative... it was all talk. It seems I've developed a foundation to building a team and culture that breeds success, high morale, high retention rates, and breeds future organizational leaders.

We will take a look at the relationship between numbers and people. Understanding how these two go hand-in-hand will help you set relevant goals to drive your business forward.

Carlos Barajas will discuss a flexible supply chain management that competitively meets short-term unique demands from customers in multiple channels. Also, he will discuss the development of a system that anticipates a changing environment and improves response to global environment changes. Companies that create flexibility and quick responses will not only limit the impact and disruptions, but also obtain an advantage in the market vs. competitors.

The role of contract management in the strategic sourcing process is shifting significantly, and managers are re-thinking how to navigate contractual issues with suppliers in the “new normal” post-COVID world. Based on his work on the front-lines of the COVID supply chain ecosystem, Rob Handfield will cover how terms of force majeure have changed, the importance of engaging suppliers in conversations to mitigate risk, and what the future is for face to face negotiation of contracts.